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Hi.
My laptop stopped booting up (corrupt registry files) i believe. So, I bought a new hard drive and reinstalled XP onto it. Everything is back to normal now and laptop is once again fully functional.
However, my problem is that I bought an IDE to USB caddy to connect the old internal drive up as an external drive with the hope that I could retrieve all the data from it. I hook it all up, the disk is recognised and appears as a drive in my computer. However, when I double click on the new drive icon, it just comes up with "Do you want to reformat ???" Obviously, I dont because i'll lose everything. Is this because of the corrupt registry files ? or because there is an operating system still on the old drive? If so, is there anyway to bypass these to allow me to get the data off?
Many Thanks
My laptop stopped booting up (corrupt registry files) i believe. So, I bought a new hard drive and reinstalled XP onto it. Everything is back to normal now and laptop is once again fully functional.
However, my problem is that I bought an IDE to USB caddy to connect the old internal drive up as an external drive with the hope that I could retrieve all the data from it. I hook it all up, the disk is recognised and appears as a drive in my computer. However, when I double click on the new drive icon, it just comes up with "Do you want to reformat ???" Obviously, I dont because i'll lose everything. Is this because of the corrupt registry files ? or because there is an operating system still on the old drive? If so, is there anyway to bypass these to allow me to get the data off?
Many Thanks